whenyellowstonehasitsday

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[–] whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.io 5 points 11 months ago (13 children)

automated checkout tech is actually good enough to be used in production now

not really.

amazon's just walk out is the leader in this area, and it came out recently that the bulk of transactions, 7 in 10, are offloaded for manual review in india

amazon of course denied the claim, but so in vague corporate speak, and failed to provide figures to counter the 7-in-10. they also did confirm that they're scaling back just walk out. i don't think those things would be the case if this technology worked as they were hoping.

[–] whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.io 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

this isn't counting people. this is working out which item or items people pick up from a shelf and decide to keep, if any. that isn't just similar to the automated checkout problem: it's the same exact problem. if anything, this iteration of it is more challenging because a blueberry is a fair amount smaller than a tin of beans.

[–] whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.io 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

me irl but ich im echten leben

[–] whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.io 50 points 11 months ago (20 children)

amazon spent a lot of money on trying to do this and then found out the technology doesn't exist and outsourced it to india

for the record, i hate that you are making me defend the tankies

  • us navy went in to protect shipping
  • the shipping was not protected
  • us navy left

what definition of "winning" are you using

The Houthis wouldn't be firing Iranian anti-ship missiles if Iranian munitions factories were bombed, but the USA chooses not to do that.

big "the us didn't really lose vietnam" cope energy

exploiting political reality is a valid military strategy

IMO treating any attack by Iranian-made missiles as if it were launched by Iran would be a reasonable policy

this stance would be an insane own-goal given what's going on in ukraine

I read the article and that headline is clickbait as fuck.

it's clickbait in the same way that vietnam defeated the us in that war they had that one time

probably the purpose of the us navy above all else is to protect shipping. like yes they're set up to fight other navies and project power, but at the end of the day, that's all so that nobody can fuck with the country's logistics.

and even given how much money gets shoveled into it, it completely failed to do so against a group of fighters with a shoestring budget.

all it takes is a handful of persistent mosquitoes to ruin the whole thing and have the entire party pick up their gear

when i go to a picnic i don't normally bring my billion-dollar mosquito killing machine, and when i do, i expect it to protect me

extra time means time for an extra morning pint

[–] whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.io -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

not really, unless you're implying the fancy hotdog vendor paid for the development of said hotdogs, which they didn't

games don't belong to valve

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